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42 Impose. Thro' autumn's languishing domain Descending, nature by degrees invites To glowing luxury. But from the depth Of winter, when th' invigorated year Emerges; when Favonius flush'd with love, Toyful and young, in every breeze descends More warm and wanton on his kindling bride; Then, shepherds, then begin to spare your flocks; And learn, with wise humanity, to check The lust of blood. Now pregnant earth commits A various offspring to th' indulgent sky: Now bounteous nature feeds with lavish hand The prone creation; yields what once suffic'd Their dainty sovereign, when the world was young; E're yet the barbarous thirst of blood had seiz'd The human breast. Each rolling month matures The food that suits it most; so does each clime.

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